Chuck Jones Quotes

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

I work really hard on my craft.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

I take my craft very seriously.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.

You can always work around this, that or the other, but if everybody's in there because they love it and they just want to do it the best they can, that's an ideal situation that you don't always get.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.